Learning performances illustrate how students should use the scientific content and practices in tasks and reflect the reasoning tasks we want students to be able to do with scientific knowledge.
Links to Standards or Benchmarks
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Materials Needed
What materials will you or the students need?
Time Required
Estimate the amount of time it will take for you to complete the lesson.
Instructional Sequence
Introducing the lesson
How will you introduce the lesson to the students? How will you motivate and capture students’ attention? How will you find out about students’ prior knowledge? How will you engage students in lesson? How will you establish a meaningful purpose for each activity in the lesson?
Instructional Activities
For each activity, describe: What will you do, write, and say to promote student thinking? What will students read, do, write, and say to understand and apply lesson's concepts?
Concluding the Lesson
How will you reinforce purpose of the lesson and unit? Relate lesson to issues in society and to student lives? How will you tie each activity of the lesson together? What the main idea of the lesson? How is each activity related to what students were to learn?
Assessing Student Understanding
How will you determine if students met the learning performances?
Cautions
Are there any dangerous or hazardous components of the activities associated with the lesson? What precautions need to be taken?
Sources
Where did you get the idea for this lesson. List references used to develop lesson plan (e.g. curriculum materials, Internet resources). Use APA format.
Teaching Resources
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Rationale
Use class readings about how students learn and what students should learn to explain why have decided to plan this lesson the way you did.
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Lesson Overview
A short description of the lesson.Learning Performances
Learning performances illustrate how students should use the scientific content and practices in tasks and reflect the reasoning tasks we want students to be able to do with scientific knowledge.Links to Standards or Benchmarks
You should link to a page unpacking the standard or benchmark lesson is meant to address.Materials Needed
What materials will you or the students need?Time Required
Estimate the amount of time it will take for you to complete the lesson.Instructional Sequence
Introducing the lesson
How will you introduce the lesson to the students? How will you motivate and capture students’ attention? How will you find out about students’ prior knowledge? How will you engage students in lesson? How will you establish a meaningful purpose for each activity in the lesson?Instructional Activities
For each activity, describe: What will you do, write, and say to promote student thinking? What will students read, do, write, and say to understand and apply lesson's concepts?Concluding the Lesson
How will you reinforce purpose of the lesson and unit? Relate lesson to issues in society and to student lives? How will you tie each activity of the lesson together? What the main idea of the lesson? How is each activity related to what students were to learn?Assessing Student Understanding
How will you determine if students met the learning performances?Cautions
Are there any dangerous or hazardous components of the activities associated with the lesson? What precautions need to be taken?Sources
Where did you get the idea for this lesson. List references used to develop lesson plan (e.g. curriculum materials, Internet resources). Use APA format.Teaching Resources
Include links to Powerpoint files, Word files, and/or pdfs for all instructional materials for this lesson, including handouts, worksheets, etc.Rationale
Use class readings about how students learn and what students should learn to explain why have decided to plan this lesson the way you did.